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What is imagery and what effects can be made in any given text?

Imagery can be:

Metaphor
Similes
Personification
Figurative language

Writer's use imagery to create dramatic effect, which is ...

Answered by Matthew H. • English Literature tutor

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Taken from an AQA paper: A common misconception is that the Internet is the World Wide Web. Explain the differences between the Internet and the World Wide Web.

Using these terms interchangeably is a pet-hate of Sir Tim-Bernes-Lee, who invented the WWW and works at our university, so it seemed an appriate choice! The internet can be thought of as a massive networ...

Answered by George G. • Computing tutor

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What is the difference between Falsificationism and Verificationism? Give a religious example of where they would disagree about the meaningfulness of a statement.

Falsificationism is the belief that the only propositions that are meaningful are those that give conditions under which they could be proven false. This differs from Verificationism that holds that the o...

Answered by Gareth P. • Philosophy and Ethics tutor

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Does a fawn suffering in a forest fire show that there is gratuitous evil in the world

Gratuitous evil is evil that cannot be explained by any theodicy, the "fawn in the fire" case is supposed to be such a case. The fawn's suffering cannot be explained by the Free Will theodicy as...

Answered by Gareth P. • Philosophy and Ethics tutor

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Does funcitonalism mean that the United States is conscious? explain your answer.

Functionalism argues that all mental states are reducible to types physical processes based on their logic (input/output) tables. For instance fear might mean [Input: something large and scary arives. Out...

Answered by Gareth P. • Philosophy tutor

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